For some reason, MMA fans (especially Zuffa haters) have this notion of Fedor as some kind of massive puncher who could one shot anyone. The truth is: he has 3 one shot KO's in over 30 fights. He flatlined Arlovski, Brett Rogers, and we'll give him credit for the Ishii KO. But apart from that, he wasn't much of a puncher.

Take Herring and Nog for example. Fedor teed off on both men for 10 minutes like they were heavybags and neither guy was close to going out.

Watch the Bigfoot fight again. Fedor clips him on the button a bunch of times in the opening 3 minutes, and Silva wasn't phased, and no one ever accused Silva of being Mark Hunt in the chin department.

He was relentless, he was the first truly great mixed martial artist, the greatest the sport has ever seen, but he wasn't a lights out puncher like too many fans who only saw him on CBS believe.

What's funny is the same people who insist he's one of the hardest punchers at HW also refuse to grant that he was a wild and/or sloppy puncher. So basically their view is that he's a monster puncher who is ALSO very accurate and ALSO lands a million punches per fight -- but for some reason just never KO'd anyone until his last couple years when he was "past his prime".

He always seemed to physically hurt guys with his punches more than he separated them from consciousness. It was weird. No heavyweight enjoys the strikes of another heavyweight, but Fedor's punches just looked like they felt.... Different. As in super painful.Especially compared to a guy like Carwin who could look like he doesn't have a whole lot behind a punch, and still knock a man and his entire extended family into a deep, brain-numbing slumber.

GriffinQ - He always seemed to physically hurt guys with his punches more than he separated them from consciousness. It was weird. No heavyweight enjoys the strikes of another heavyweight, but Fedor's punches just looked like they felt.... Different. As in super painful.Especially compared to a guy like Carwin who could look like he doesn't have a whole lot behind a punch, and still knock a man and his entire extended family into a deep, brain-numbing slumber.

Good point, there are punchers whose shots don't look like much like Carwin, Teixeira on Bader last night, etc.

Then there are guys whose punches look absolutely terrifying like Fedor and Igor Vovchanchyn.

Speed generates power, Fedor didn't start sitting down on his punches until he slowed down later in his career...His strikes were to overwhelm you and set up his take downs in his prime. Watch the Nog fights.

Bobby, you're going out of your way to talk shit on the best mma fighter in history? Alrighty dude. Can't back you on this.

He's my all time favorite and the greatest ever, there's no need to bend the truth to make him out to be something he wasn't. He was good enough as is.

Fedor's boxing was brilliant when it was used primarily to close the distance and if that didn't work: to land a wild hook. He was a GNP/Sub fighter who used a tornado of punches to grab a hold of his opponent and take him down and do his real work.

The Fedor that came to the US was a straight up Stand and Wanger. He forgot about the entire grappling aspect of MMA once he landed that crazy bomb on Rogers.

While his boxing was great for setting up clinches or causing his opponent to back up, it wasn't enough on it's own, and that's evidenced by his lack of success fighting in the USA.

I don't even think his speed eroded that much. I think his physical strength went into steep decline, he wasn't training as hard and he neglected to keep up with advanced grappling (trying to get Vinny M to coach for free WTF)

He was pretty quick in the Hendo and Bigfoot fights, but both guys manhanded him and pushed him around. The narrative that Bigfoot's size led to Fedor fighting from distance is a false one. He threw and landed the same crazy punches, but Bigfoot shrugged them off and countered instead of freezing or retreating. The lack of impact on his punches is what gave Bigfoot confidence.

Post Strikeforce Fedor looked to be even quicker than the bootleg version we got in the US, and he looked sharper than ever in those fights.

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